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Young adults living with their parents and the influence of peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2016
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
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Changing roles of ability and education in U.S. integrational mobility
Richey, Jeremiah; Rosburg, Alicia - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 55 (2017) 1, pp. 187-201
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738586
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Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness and education expenditure : evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
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Does urban public housing diminish the social capital and labor force activity of its tenants?
Reingold, David A.; Van Ryzin, Gregg G.; Ronda, Michelle - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 20 (2001) 3, pp. 485-504
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Spatial mismatch: from the hypothesis to the theories
Gobillon, Laurent (contributor); Selod, Harris (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Moving into and out of poor urban areas
Gramlich, Edward M. - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 11 (1992) 2, pp. 273-287
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Who became poor, who escaped poverty, and why? : developing and using a retrospective methodology in five countries
Krishna, Anirudh - In: Journal of policy analysis and management : the journal … 29 (2010) 2, pp. 351-372
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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants : 1980 - 2000
Blau, Francine D. (contributor);  … - 2008
assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759757
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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2008
fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759915
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Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence
Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor);  … - 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
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